"Colour B4" Hair dye remover

Yep It strips the colour out, but you need lots of rinsing and the orange tinge will remain if you have ever bleached your hair, and it has not gone to white blond.

Just a tip, never ever use Boots Semi-Premanent hair dye in Rich Maghogany ,it will leave you with purple goth embarrassing teenage hair.

Boots Dundrum have it, I would say most major Boots stores round the country have it.

thanks lollors im going to have to try it and see iv got a really bad rusty colour after xx live

Yep, got it in the new boots off paul street. Was really hard to find, it was just thrown in the middle of all the hairdyes so I had to go scan each shelf to find it, was €13.99. Trying to upload the pictures but I cant find my cable for my camera and my sd card reader isnt working!

Pretty impressed with it, my hair was nearly black after layers of dye and its now a pretty even reddy/brown colour, going to try and netrualise it with a ash coloured rinse as suggested. Best bit is my hair seems to be in the same condition it was prior to the process! Will post pics when my card reader decides to kick in and work!

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Just used colour b4 myself there.

My hair has been dyed a dark medium brown (permanent) since september, before that it was blonde.

It got a lot of the brown out, but not all, though I didn't expect that. My hair went a ginger brown colour, so like above poster I dyed over with clairol's light ash brown (looks almost dark/dirty blonde on the box).

My hair now looks black... I've tried rinsing as it's only a semi, but no. Just going to have to look like a goth for the next week or so. Very pissed off. :mad:

So I think don't dye straight away after using colour b4, wait a day. It's possible the hair has become porous and absorbed the hair dye at lot more than it should. Other than that it's a good product and does the job.

Thats the exact hair colour I used to cancel out the redness! But alas my hair must have still be too porous to accept the colour properly, but I had no choice as I had work the next day so had to do it. My advice would be do it when you have 2 days when you dont have to leave the house, do it on the first night, wash the next day and the day after then dye to cancel out the red tones.

Have to say though my hair condition doesnt appeared to have changed at all. As you can see in the pics straight after the Colour B4 was used my hair had a lovely shine to it, and I hadnt even used conditioner, just the products that came in the box, all in all it gets the thumbs up from me and will probably try it again when I have more time to leave my hair recover and breath a bit after using it.

Hi there, I saw this thread and had to join in. I created this product.

The reason you have been having these problems is this misconception there now is with permanent and semi permanent and temporary colours.

24 wash colours are permanent. Although we call them semi permanent they contain peroxide and to be quite frank give permanent results which may fade over months but certainly not washes.

If you go to a salon for semi permanent they will use a weak peroxide developer but most of these box colours you find in retail use high peroxide strengths. Therefore, if you use them after applying Colour B4 the colour will appear very dark as it can re-oxidize the old shade and grab on porous hair.

I only ever suggest using 2 products immediately after Colour B4. Loving Care Level 1 temporary and Wella Colour Fresh. If you apply the light ash brown Loving Care after using Colour B4 the hair will go a nice light shade. Then 2 weeks later (once your hair has calmed down and the temporary colour faded) I recommend using a semi permanent to (ironically) create the final permanent shade.

But please people, remember if the box contains two intermixable elements (a developer and a cream or liquid colour) you are using a permanent technology product no matter what the box says! Its ability to fade is only down to your hair type and condition.

I hope that helps!

Cheers

Scott

Thanks for clarifying that. Damn those dyes making us believe that they arent permanent! Have to say though totally impressed with the product, did exactly what it said it would, and didnt cause any visible damage.

Thankfully, Ive learned from my mistakes this time and certainly wont be making them again next time I try!

i used this the other day my hair is a natural dark brown i had a red xxl live in it and it was going a rusty colour , i put the colour b4 in and it turned it a light blond clour .

ya wouldnt have to dye over because it was a nice colour like,but i did cause it didnt suit me with my black eyebrows ha ha.